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Coral Cay Conservation (2012) SOUTHERN LEYTE CORAL REEF CONSERVATION PROJECT Summary Report - RESULTS OF COMMUNITY AND SCIENTIFIC WORK AUGUST 2010 – JULY 2012 Page i © Coral Cay Conservation (2012) In partnership with: The Provincial Government of Southern Leyte, Philippines Report by Kate Longhurst, Head of Science1 Melissa McVee, GIS Assistant1 Alex Ferguson, Science Intern1 1Coral Cay Conservation, [email protected] The Philippine Reef and Rainforest Coral Cay Conservation Foundation Inc. The Granary, Shoelands Farm South Capitol Road Puttenham Bacolod City 6100 Surrey, GU10 1HL Philippines United Kingdom www.prrcf.org www.coralcay.org [email protected] [email protected] Page ii © Coral Cay Conservation (2012) Executive Summary The Southern Leyte Coral Reef Conservation Project (SLCRCP) was undertaken with the main objective of assisting the Provincial Government of Southern Leyte (PGSL) in the conservation of the coral reefs of Sogod Bay for the long-term benefit and food-security of the residents of the Province. This assistance has been provided under successive Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) between PGSL, Coral Cay Conservation (CCC) and the Philippine Reef & Rainforest Conservation Foundation, Inc. (PRRCFI). Three strategies have been identified as appropriate for achieving this objective, namely: 1 - Conservation education for the fisherfolk, schools, colleges, and Local Government Units (LGUs) of the Province 2 - Capacity building of technical skills amongst the employees of the PGSL 3 - Resource appraisal of the current status of the coral reefs of the bay From September 2002 to April 2004, the SLCRCP was based near the town of Malitbog, from where CCC dive teams assessed the north-eastern and north-western reefs. In May 2004, the project moved to the Municipality of Padre Burgos, from where the reefs of the southwest and Limasawa Island could be assessed. In April of 2008, the project site again moved, this time to the island of Panaon on the eastern side of Sogod Bay. From here, the remaining survey sites along the more remote south-eastern coastline of Sogod Bay can be surveyed. This report contains an analysis of all of the data gathered by CCC survey teams from the project’s inception in September 2002, until July 2012. It also contains a synopsis of community work and capacity building activities undertaken between August 2012 and July 2012. Community and capacity building work undertaken prior to this have previously been presented in CCC summary reports. Since the project’s inception in September 2002, CCC has successfully installed community based Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), trained local government representatives, scholars and suitable community representatives to both dive and conduct scientific surveys whilst also instigating and delivering a wealth of community educational work. Over the past 24 months, CCC project staff and volunteers undertook extensive community education programmes that included teacher and student training days, educational open days at the project site, presentations and interactive lessons for schools, beach clean-ups and attendance at local fairs, symposia and workshops. The CCC Scholarship Programme provided 19 scholars with 4- week SCUBA dive and scientific survey training. CCC survey teams have thus far produced a total of 2,055 individual survey records for the reefs of Sogod Bay. Because the location of each of these surveys was determined using a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, these data can be imported to a Geographic Information System (GIS), to facilitate spatial analysis. These data will be made freely available to the resource managers of Southern Leyte, to allow for target specific querying of the dataset, as well as the selected analysis presented herein. Hard coral cover was higher towards the mouth of the bay, which may be linked to higher sediment input into the bay’s head in the north. Hard coral species diversity was very high in certain areas of the bay with a number of rare species recorded. A total of 257 species of hard coral have been identified thus far. Page iii © Coral Cay Conservation (2012) Low abundance of commercially important fish and invertebrate species indicates that there is severe over-fishing of the reef fish populations within Sogod Bay and follows the trend that fish stocks are considered to be both biologically and economically overfished in most areas of the Philippines. Setting up networks of properly managed MPAs is suggested as the most effective strategy for securing areas of high coral cover and diversity, in addition to allowing fish stocks to recover. The high diversity and abundance of reef fish species and high live hard coral cover in existing fish sanctuaries, such as Napantao on the eastern coast of Sogod Bay and the four fish sanctuaries around Padre Burgos is encouraging and also extremely attractive to divers. The presence of Whale Sharks and other ‘megafauna’, such as turtles, sharks and marine mammals, indicates that there is great potential for coastal or dive related tourism in the area, assuming it is managed in a sustainable manner. Page iv © Coral Cay Conservation (2012) Acknowledgements Coral Cay Conservation would like to extend its heartfelt thanks to the following people and organisations, without whom this project would not have been possible: Provincial Governor for Southern Leyte, Hon. Damian Mercado, Vice-Governor Miguel Maamo and the Provincial Board members Gerry L. Ledesma, and all the staff from the Philippine Reef & Rainforest Conservation Foundation Inc (PRRCFI) Nedgar Garves and all the staff at the Provincial Tourism Office Mam Eva Abad and all the staff at the Provincial Coastal Resources Management Office Hon. Samson Gumutan Jr., Municipal Mayor of San Francisco All the staff of GiZ Southern Leyte Dr. Violeta Merin-Alocilja, CESO V, Department of Education, Southern Leyte Division The members of the Padre Burgos MPA Oversight Committee The members of the Napantao Fish Sanctuary Steering Committee Dr. Gloria Reyes, Homer de Dioz and all staff of Southern Leyte State University In alphabetical order, Günter (Southern Leyte Divers), Pete (Peter’s Dive Resort) and Ron and Phil (Sogod Bay Divers), for their continued support and for sharing their knowledge of Sogod Bay Our Filipino staff, Tata, Bok Bok, Jesse, Marvin, Ricky and Benjamin whose loyalty, trust, and dedication are highly valued A special thanks goes out to Neil Pretencio, Lloyd “Wang Yu” Abiera, Emmanuel Gulay and Ma’am Beverly Navarette, for their support, advice and friendship. All the dedicated international volunteers who gathered the data and made this project possible. Page v © Coral Cay Conservation (2012) Table of Contents Coral Cay Conservation ................................................................................................................ 8 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 10 1.1 The Philippines ...................................................................................................................... 10 1.2 Southern Leyte ...................................................................................................................... 11 1.3 Threats to the Coral Reefs of Sogod Bay ............................................................................... 13 1.3.1 Global and Regional-Scale Threats and Impacts ...................................................... 13 1.3.2 Intermediate and Local-Scale Threats and Impacts.................................................. 15 2. Community and Capacity Building Work ............................................................................... 20 2.1 CCC Scholarship Scheme ....................................................................................................... 20 2.2 Summary of Meetings and Community Activities ................................................................. 21 3. Scientific Methods ............................................................................................................... 29 3.1 Background ............................................................................................................................ 29 3.2 Methodology ......................................................................................................................... 29 3.3 Geographic Information System ............................................................................................ 33 4. Scientific Results .................................................................................................................. 34 4.1 Results from Oceanographic and Anthropogenic Impact Data ............................................ 36 4.2 Results from Benthic Indicators ............................................................................................ 41 4.3 Results from Fish Families ..................................................................................................... 48 4.4 Conservation Management Values ....................................................................................... 52 5. Discussion ............................................................................................................................ 54 6. The Future of the SLCRCP ..................................................................................................... 56 Bibliography .............................................................................................................................
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